Re: GIT character codecs

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Nov 14, 2005, 04:47 UTC
Message-ID: <pan.2005.11.14.04.47.25.899163@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bm0c0gf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I suspect you could just take the default from LANG and LC_CTYPE
> to cover 98% of the cases, and to cover the rest 2% the
> problematic cases have a per-window override menu.

Or, if you want to be super-flexible, just try to decode as UTF-8. Success? fine -- otherwise use whatever your application's default is set to, or your local encoding (which may of course also be UTF-8), or fall back to 8859-15.

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